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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William drake" data-source="post: 3547436" data-attributes="member: 49143">Well, I think your wrong, but that's not the point. I agree with what someone else wrote "if you dont want your players to play elves, then say it" you shouldn't just make a cross-the-board statment that takes up several pages of text to explain your oppinion of a mythos that's older then you, or any writer you quoted.My opinion: the only reason that elves dont ever put the hurt on humans is this; they are of a higher breed, they've gone through the "we're going to fight and take" they are the wise, the platos' and aristotles of the world, in a race. But, but no means are they totally peaceful. As any wise people, violence has it's place. However, to an elf, it would be defense, and only to the point that they enemy sees the cost of their attempts. Their way of waring would be to show their might quickly with their ability to ben the laws of reality. I mean, what would an army of men do against an army of elves which could call down lightning and fireballs.Another question. In some casses, elves live outside of humanity, because they simply can; like an alien race, they think we are quaint, and cute, like children or a dog. Something that hasn't yet "got it" but, they like us because their a a Few who understand. Also, being so wise and noble, the elves, as a people, later in their long lives, come to understand that the only way to understand one's life, is to play it out, fully, and so, I feel that later in their lives, they choose to die; or, allow it to happen so that it is over. To go on and on would be a human thing, not an elven thing. Elves have always been seen as godlike, or angelic, I would think that for the most part humanity would be afraid of them, or atleast, weary. You've talked about great authors, I would suggest you reread some of them to try and see what they were really talking about. In my readings, I've only found one author, the same that inspired Mr. Moorcock, the writer of "The Broken Sword" and in his book, the only reason that the elves were being pushed back and beaten by MEN, was the fact that they didn't watch them; they let them go uninspected, or met for so long that by the time the humans invaded the part of the world where the elves were, there were so many of them. In each villiage or castle that the humans came to, the elves were first kind, but then they were just out gunned. You must understand the restrictions that each author gave to his/her elves. None were as powerful or with so wide-range as those in D&D, and that is where I think you've made a mistake.  They two are not the same.Game On</blockquote>

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